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- BAR FEDERAL MEN c,INQUEST INTOSMUGGLER DEATHSHidrm i r 1Rhode Island Attorney General Rules Men Should ' an d 1 Not Get Defense Points | Hlt;111 for Guards. JJJCHASER DID NOT USE REGULAR GUNMiIIt©Reporter and Others lesti-f fy One-pounder Cuatom-darily Used in Warningm ir-nin iShots Was Not Firedby Guards.p; tifcitcareishwaA\b U ed ho bo ov cmn , NEWPORT, R. I. .Jan. 2 P*--. ofn. Ih,!10mtoirTn.■tyit p-■i*rf1- IrtntSl-If1-Steven witnesses iv#rt hoard today olat the mates inquest, fromlwhich H Federal officials werf barred. Into the death* of three rum runner* on the motor boat Black Duck off her©!Sunday. The Federal officer* were barred bv Attorney General Oscar U Haitian, who said he did not consider that they had a right to be present to get Information that could be used for a defen*# If an indictment should be brought|agaiitst |the :crew| of the coast guard boat ft® who shot the rum runners.Th© inquest conducted by H©U*sen and Coroner Perry II, Daw ley, was continued until nest week, probably Monday, when Reltsen said he hoped to have the difficulties that hav»- arisen between the state and Federal authoritiessufficiently Ironed out m as to get th© testimony of th Coast Guardcrew.SKl^®f: PTlf:s| Th©:;: Inquest I was I private land non© of the testimony was madeknowm. The Federal officers barred were Deputy Collector T. F. Finnegan* of Boston, Customs Agent Joseph P. McKenna and Inspector George M. Murphy, who said they were conducting an Investigation of the shooting for the Treasury department. In discussing his refusal to permit the men to enter Heltsen asked Finnegan If he had the names of the crew of the 2to and Finnegan replied that he did not have them.Th# witness©* heard were Sergeant James Toorney and Private* Ray Rankin and Clifford Reistrlckof the merical detachment at Fort Adam*, who received the bodies of the dead men when they were brought to the fort by the CoastGuard crew: Charles Travers of New Bedford, the surviving member of the crew of the Black Duck; Lieutenant 0. D. Bowman. who was officer of the day at the fort when th# bodies reached there, Medical Jfiaminer Samuel Adtl-son of Newport, and Thomas Cassidy, a New York reporter who was understood to have testified that a Coast Guard officer at New London had told him the one-pounder on the IfO, the gun usually usedin firing a warning at rum ships, had not been fired lyj Heltsen said h# had ‘‘plenty of is I testimony that th© o^rie pounder Jvlhad not been fired,■ahobebybetoharmacxUhitolt;agc-alr-rtit*)0idetarys©esreidormneidteitoirutinanthioffoichCorelt;mitiotrinoopatltrigPaidqu
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Jamestown Morning Post
Jamestown, New York, US
Fri, Jan 03, 1930
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